Timeline for Reason for Subject-Verb Inversion: Only in cases where A is B, shall the Company do X
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| Jan 15, 2013 at 0:03 | vote | accept | curious-proofreader | ||
| Nov 1, 2012 at 7:58 | vote | accept | curious-proofreader | ||
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| Oct 19, 2012 at 7:17 | comment | added | John Lawler | The normal beginning of an English declarative sentence is the subject NP. If it's anything else, something that would normally occur later has been placed there on purpose. Adverbials are common. So if one simply says "after", one still has to account for how the adverbial got there. | |
| Oct 19, 2012 at 6:29 | comment | added | Jim | @Merk- It means "when adding to the beginning"- almost the exact opposite. Although, funnily enough, your interpretation in this instance leads to the same semantic conclusion. | |
| Oct 19, 2012 at 6:20 | comment | added | Merk | Does "when preposing" mean anything different than simply "after"? | |
| Oct 19, 2012 at 6:18 | history | answered | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |